Nippon Ichi Software recently announced that the RPG they’ve been teasing for a while now, The God and Fate Revolution Paradox, is an upcoming PlayStation 3 game. In the game, you play as Renya, a boy who has the power to make wishes come true, and today, NIS showed off the first screenshots of the title:

Renya has a supporting cast of angels to help him make people’s wishes come true. Take a look at them below in sprite form:

Liliel and Sheliel

Kurouel and Lanael

Nelel and Lekiel

Galshion

The God and Fate Revolution Paradox is being developed by the Disgaea team, and is meant to celebrate the company’s 20th anniversary. Of course, that doesn’t mean NIS will stop working on Disgaea games.

No wonder it looks familiar. The sprites looks sharper than most Disgaea games, and it looks awesome too, waiting for some gameplay footage :D

MrKappa

Not really feeling this. It seems like a filler game so Disgaea won’t get stale.
I don’t know what is going on but it looks like the characters are a bunch of jokers and it is pretty tiresome to run through the same gags like Disgaea all over again.

It’s almost like you have no actual argument to defend NIS’s persistent lazy design choices, so you’re forced to make trite, failed attempts at wit instead of responding to anything I said.

Eerie.

M’iau M’iaut

I’m not quite sure if we can make the claim of lazy design choices based off of 6 screenies. I’d say the earlier OP hints the moe loli maids are hiding a far deeper story. None of these angel meidos are the girl we saw before.

If you look closely, the text and portrait resolutions are higher than what can be practically rendered for PSP. Besides, graphic resolutions aren’t the sole deciding factor of a game’s overall quality.

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That’s a fair argument against making it directly for the PSP. I can see why they should have just released it directly on the Vita, as it’s clearly a portable game.

I’m not concerned about the resolution. I’m concerned about the dimensions. NIS is determined to stick with 2 after most everyone has moved to 3. And they’re no Vanillaware, either.

Well, if that’s the visual style they choose, that’s that. As long as they can present their titles well, it doesn’t really matter whether it’s 2D or 3D.

Fitzkrieg

Fine, I guess I’ll give an argument if you REALLY want one.
I know for a fact that a lot of people, myself included, are rather tired of seeing people complain about N1’s refusal to adopt the ‘cutting edge’ as you put it. Why should they be required to move to a 3D art style simply on the merit of it being current when 2D suits the aesthetic of their games as well as their choices in graphical style perfectly fine? As crazy as it may sound, having a high poly-count isn’t what makes a game look good.

Ok. So now that we know it looks good, I’m hoping it’ll play like anything other than Disgaea. It would feel like a bit of a waste to me since we already know the Disgaea team has plans for D5. I’d still check it out though.

RadShiro

If it’s just a turn based RPG with Disgaea 4 sprites I would be SO happy.

komiko12

I can already sense that it will have the same comedic feeling in the script.

Darkrise

I get the feeling that the gameplay is going to be Disgaea-style. =/ Not that I have a problem with it but something new would be great.

I don’t get why they insist to make PS3 games with this pixelated graphics, like you’re playing a Psone game! Can’t they simply smooth the graphics keeping the stylised-anime graphics?

M’iau M’iaut

I would suspect it is a design choice meant to appeal to the JRPG/anime/manga hobbyist. It’s not so much a situation of ‘wow, now we can do this’ but rather what works well with what we are doing, and what do our customers expect.

There are things that can be done artistically with pixely sprites that lose some of their impact when done in higher res, IMO.

Kitestwinblades

Sprite style looks a LOT like Disgaea 4(along with a few poses… I’d recognize the first two anywhere lol) only less sharp. But because of this, It only makes me more curious to see some gameplay. I mean its natural for it to look like a Disgaea game, but I’m dying to know how its going to play out :3